Kneser's method of neighbors (Q6139350)

The article under review gives a nice overview over many facets of Kneser's neighborhood method. The author starts with the historic origins of this tool which has been invented to get insight into finding all lattices belonging to the genus of a given positive lattice in a euclidean space. He explains many details and gives examples which nicely illustrate the theory. He goes on to explain more recent topics related to the neighborhood method in the theory of (algebraic) modular forms, involving some new algorithms for calculating Hecke operators. The list of references is exhaustive with but one omission (according to the reviewers taste): \textit{M. Kneser}'s book on quadratic forms [Quadratische Formen. Neu bearbeitet und herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Rudolf Scharlau. Berlin: Springer (2002; Zbl 1001.11014)] has not been included.